I don’t think I could function properly if I didn’t have Roboform as my app for remembering logins. I know there are others, but to me, Roboform is still #1. While it’s great at remembering logins, it’s also extremely handy for filling in forms, and making purchases online with your stored banking details. Yes, you can password protect Roboform app.

Truthfully, you never know when someone is going to bust out with a story about themselves or their friends. Created by David Isay, this app allows us all to tell the human story. It can be planned, or impromptu but always a great way to preserve memories for posterity.

I use this app to add a watermark to my photos on my iPhone to point friends and clients to my blog, or just to say “it’s mine”. “Marksta allows you to watermark your photography, adding text or a logo directly from your iPhone or iPad.”

This one is crucial for any traveler on the road. This app tracks your location and gives you several results for available rest areas. Make sure you check out some of the other apps they’ve created too.

It took me a whole day to find how to do it, but I finally found the way to change my RSS feed title/description to the way I wanted it to read. When I was just beginning to optimize and publicize this blog, I mistakenly thought it would only be going out to subscribers who read it in readers and not realizing that a feed can be used by email subscription services like MailChimp as well.

When I did a test send for my new MailChimp campaign for iPentimento I was dissatisfied with the Feed Title and did a little “poking around” in FeedBurner and clicked on the tab Optimize, scrolled down on the left side of the page to Title/Description burner and as you can see in the image I was able make my desired changes.

As I said, I am now using MailChimp for subscribers for this blog and it’s sister Pentimento. (Pentimento isn’t a genealogy blog, just my personal one for ideas, opinions and insights.)

QL700 Label Printer Fix

When I got my new label printer I thought it was going to be a snap to get it up and making labels in just a few hours. Keep in mind, I was dealing with a new 8.1 Windows operating system, on a new to me computer, so there was a bit of a learning curve included. I got the label maker from Amazon in early June, so as you can see, I was a bit slow on the uptake.

I went through all the steps to hook it up correctly…more than a few times. But, something was missing. Yesterday, I finally discovered what it was: the correct driver for my 64 bit Windows 8.1 OS.That’s all it was and in just a couple minutes I was making labels. One of the features that I’m looking forward to using on this label maker is the ability to print postage when I need it. Next up, seeing if I can find a way to convert all of my old Avery label files into the Brother system file types. If not, then it will be a slow slog of doing them all over again.

I know I’ve been talking about this a lot lately, but none of us want to have our blogs infected by hackers using brute force tactics to get into our files through using the default “Admin” login name. This should be one of the first things you change when you begin your blog.

Source: These are directions Website Defender gives in order to change your Admin name.

Login into your WordPress admin panel using your admin account.

Select the ”users” area from your dashboard panel, and click on “Add New User”.

Fill in the form and choose ”administrator” in the ”Role” drop down menu (remember to enter a strong web password and also check the password strength indicator to confirm that your new password is strong enough).

When finished, click on ”Add New User”.

Log in again using your new WordPress admin username.

Navigate to the ”Users” area.

From the users list check the box of the previous “admin” username and select ”Delete” from the drop-down menu.

Next, you will be asked about the articles posted under the the previous ”admin” username. Select the option “attribute all posts and links to:” and select your new administrator password. When ready click “Confirm Deletion”.

Make sure that the “display name” of your admin user is different from the username, especially if the admin user posts any blog articles. If the actual username is used also as ”display name” of the writer, a hacker can easily identify the admin username and target the account.